“Come, child, eat some more. These vegetables were all personally grown by me! They’re very fresh.” Mrs. Long affectionately used her chopsticks to take bits of every dish she had made. She rarely had visitors, so she was very excited by Long Chen and Dong Mingyu’s arrival.

With each dish, she explained what vegetables had gone into it and how she had cultivated them. What made Long Chen the most speechless was that his mother had even started raising her own chickens, ducks, and pigs. Everything on the table had been grown by her.

“Mom, this is the Wine God Palace, a sacred place. It’s… it’s not very suitable for you to raise these.” Long Chen felt a bit bitter. Raising livestock within the Wine God Palace didn’t seem to suit its nature.

“What’s not suitable about it? Even the great High Priest comes every month to eat a meal with us. He constantly praises my cooking. The High Priest even said something about the Dao…” Mrs. Long couldn’t quite recall what it was.

“It was that the Dao is hidden within life. It means that many Daos within this world are hidden...